Get the countries of the world in Silverlight

Question

Hi all,

In 'normal' .Net, you can get the world's countries using the method described in this link.

Unfortunately, Silverlight doesn't support GetCultures or CultureTypes (yet?). Is there a way to get the countries in SL, without hard-coding them of course?

Thanks, Frances

Answer 1

Well, those are "hardcoded" at some level. Countries of the world, as far as GetCulture is concerned is fairly static. You might as well use GetCultures to generate some code an wrap in a library where you can call your own such method. It's not like that method is calling some U.N. API over the Internet that is updated quarterly. :)

Answer 2

Expose this functionality using a webservice, then make a call from Silverlight to retrieve a list from server...